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Poll: Newby ghost photo - ever proved a fake?
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Bucks Fizz.
Don't worry I've diagnosed Lysander as schizotypal based on his conspiracy theories in the other thread, so this kind of sourcing is par for the course.
Have you completely discounted the possibility of him being an Übertroll?
Or maybe demnons are behind it all...
Don't be silly. You can't actually see or hear ghosts, you can only see them in photographs, and can only hear them on recordings!
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I think he's a genuine, and actually very nice, guy who just happens to have some wacky views.
You say this as if this is a less likely scenario than it actually being a ghost....
I say this as it being an incredibly unlikely series of events of the planets aligning and a drop of water and reflections of light just somehow managing to create an image of something associated with the building. Not only does it resemble a monk but the "water drop" also seemed to stay pretty true to body proportions for something of that height and also nicely compensated for the robe at the bottom literally wrapping itself around the step.
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I'm not saying its a ghost, but I'm also not buying into some theory from some random internet "expert" about a drop of water and reflections of light just magically combining to create something suitable for the venue it was photographed in. There's some explanation for it but so far its yet to be determined from what I've read.
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I promise that when I die and become a ghost I will try and act as normal as possible and when talking to a Psychic I will speak in a clear manner so the Psychic doesn't act as though they're deaf.
I also promise that I will say something relevant and not 'What about that time you lost a shoe' or other such rubbish.
I also promise that I will say something relevant and not 'What about that time you lost a shoe' or other such rubbish.
More videos though which are easier to fake than ever. Just have to have a squint on YouTube to see loads of them.
Totally agree. With film it would be so easy, yet impossible to "prove" false.
Just work out the exposure. Halve it. Stick the camera on a tripod and shoot one shot with the person in a costume. Get person to move and shoot another shot without moving the film. Perfect exposure of the background and a ghostly figure that could never be "disproved".
Actually, there are far, far more now. It's just that not many of them that have become well known.
(Apologies for the double post.)
No editing required, I could replicate that photo no problem, even with a single exposure.
Would be interested to see some more.
Do so, that could be your next project.
They've just been driven more to the sidelines with everyone screaming 'fake' on the internet. Everyone's an expert here.
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There are literally thousands. Here is a site called Ghost Study. It's terribly presented (think of the internet from 1995), but the photographs are submitted by real people from around the world, and there are a lot of them. In my opinion, a great many of the snaps are pareidolic in nature or simply suffering from the normal effects of the 'failures' of digital cameras. Interesting, nonetheless.
Ok, you sort out a church and some sheets and I will
Genuine question: could you replicate the effect in such a way that another photographer would not be able to conclusively say it was faked?
Yes, a single exposure long enough with a subject still enough would allow you to duplicate it without leaving any trace of movement when they leave the frame. Or you could simply cover the lens whilst they move in and out of shot.